This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Taurus FamilyTree is a trademark of Taurus Software. Java is a registered
trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All other product names mentioned herein
are the trademarks of their respective owners.

All references to Taurus Software directly refer to the non-profit
freeware/shareware software development unit run from the UK by myself. Any
conflict with names of companies inside or outside of the UK is unintentional
and should be disregarded.

Platform Support
Taurus CalendarMaker is provided in binary form as a set of platform
independant Java class files, and as such should run on any platform with a
Java compliant virtual machine. Many of the features of latest version of
Swing are used for the Graphical User Interface, and it is therefore required
for the application to run. You will therefore require at least the following
for CalendarMaker to run:

A Java 2 SDK 1.4 compliant virtual machine

Installation
Unpack the downloaded calmaker_bin_100 ZIP file containing CalendarMaker into a
suitable directory (e.g. C:\CalMaker). If you want some images to start
working with, then download and unzip calmaker_images.zip into the same
directory (this does not stop you using your own images later). Note that
these images are heavily compressed to save space - if you want better quality
images, then most of them can be downloaded from the
Photography section.

Running
Windows users need simply double-click @run.bat and CalendarMaker
will start and display one of the two templates.

Unix (including Linux) users need to cd to the installation
directory and type ./run.sh. Again CalendarMaker will start and
display one of the two templates.

Mac users need to enter the command contained in the file
run.mac.

Example Calendars
CalendarMaker comes with two example calendar templates and some images, so you
can get going right away. By default CalendarMaker creates a simple table
calendar template. You can create a simple list calendar template by selecting
File->New->List Calendar.

Your own Calendars
You are not limited to the two example calendars. There are two ways in which
you can create your own. Either customize the existing templates with new
images and/or change their fonts amd colours, or create your own template from
scratch.

To learn more about CalendarMaker, why not follow the short
online tutorial.

Note to Windows 2000 and XP Users
In JDK 1.4, Swing honours the "Hide keyboard navigation indicators until I
use the Alt key" setting from the Display Properties + Appearance tab +
Effects... options. If you wish to use keyboard navigation, either turn this
off, or simply press the Alt key and the usual underscores will appear.
One aim is to make CalendarMaker fully navigable via the keyboard to aid users
who have difficulty in using a mouse.

Note to Users of Screen Reading Software
CalendarMaker has been written to provided basic support for Screen Readers.
In order for this to work, you must install Sun's Java Access Bridge,
available from Sun's java.sun.com
website.